Previously, I did an analysis of each EPL team’s performance based on their goal difference. However, as soccer fans all know, goals are often the result of luck (good or bad). Your team can create tons of great chances and fail to score, and can give up unexplainable wonder goals from 60 yards (I see […]
Well another Premier League season has come and gone in England, leading to weeks of analysts debating who over/under achieved. Naturally, I want to weigh in as well. The difficult question is how do you gauge how successful a team should be? For the sake of simplicity, soccer is all about goals. It is about […]
I recently worked up a statistical ranking system for club team across Europe, found here, and decided to apply that system to the 32 teams in the World Cup. The ranking system looks at statistics across three categories that I found most correlated to winning. Additionally, in this edition of the rankings, I was able […]
It has certainly been an incredible World Cup so far. Lots of goals, some great performances, and a few heartbreaks (I still haven’t gotten over last night…). I have been compiling statistics through the first two group games looking for signs of teams playing styles and performance levels. Obviously, one can get a very good […]
After working on my rankings for the 32 World Cup teams (which can be found in my previous post), I decided to get to work on a ranking system for the club teams in the top 5 leagues (England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France). The rankings are based on a teams stats from 3 categories (offense, […]
Based on the club statistics compiled by John Burn-Murdoch here, I have created my own World Cup 2014 Guide. All statistics are based on each team’s club performances. Using these statistics, I created each teams offensive, defensive, and passing scores relative to the 32 World Cup teams. I then averaged these to get each team’s […]
Here are some statistics I was able to compile for the USA’s group stage opposition. A special thanks to ENBSports for the stats! Ghana Portugal Germany
Quick graphical summary of the 3 US send off games over the last two weeks. Take from it what you will! PAPT= Passes Allowed Per Tackle PAPI= Passes Allowed Per Interception PAPPA= Passes Allowed Per Pressing Action (Tackle + Int) PDO= 1000 * (SOT/Shot + Save/SOTA) All stats courtesy of OPTA
Based on recent friendlies, Jurgen seems dead set on the 4-4-2 Diamond formation going forward. It allows us to play with two strikers, gives us more options going forward, but seems to be leaving us vulnerable for counters out wide. From my observations, we can debate who should start up top or on the wings […]
I found some free time today to do a bit more analysis on some of the USMNT statistics. Thanks to work done by American Soccer Analysis and Squawka.com, I was able to do some work on shots inside and outside of the box, as well as a bit more with positional passing numbers. I wanted […]
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